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IMPROVEMENT IN TIN GANS.

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TO'ALL WHOM IT MAY GONCERN:

Be it known that I, G. E. HEGERMAN, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings,and State of New York, have invented a new and improved Tin Can;` and Ido hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to makeand use the same, reference being -had to the accompanying drawings,forming apart of this specification.

Figure represents a sectional elevation of my improved tin can.

Figure 2 is a. plan or top view, partly in section, of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

`'lhis invention relates toa new tin can, which is to be moreAparticularly used for the keeping and transportation of petroleum andother liquids. Y

The invention consists, first, in so-bcnding the edges of the platesthat form the sides of a rectangular or other prismatic tin can, thatthe connection between two such adjoining plates may he produced bymeans of two different strips of solder, thereby insuring greaterstrength and durability.

The invention `also consists in providing a cap for such can, to beclosed by means of a screw-plug, that can be removed when the contentsare to be discharged.

By means ot' this plug the can may be opened and closed at pleasure,while the ordinary caps now in use are mostly such that must bedestroyed to open the can. l

A A, in the drawing, are the sides of a prismatic tin can. l

The side edges of each plate A are .bent inward at an angle ot' aboutthirty degrees, and are Athen, by a gradual bend, turned out again', asis clearly shown in iig. 2, in which a is the aforementioned bent-inportion, b the part turned out. l

Bythis arrangement thejoint will be doubled, that is, the two platestouch each other at c, where a commences, and at d, where the parts bcome together.

Two strips, c and d, of solder can thus be arranged at each joint. y

To the cover C ofthe can is, in oneeorner, secured, by solder orotherwise, a short nut or cap, B, which is provided with a female-screwthread, and which canbe closed by means of a screw-plug, e, as shown iniig. 1. 4

The cover C is perforated below the plug, so that liquid matter may befreely poured into or discharged from the can.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

So bending the edges of theplates that form the sides of a sheet-metalcan, that there may be two rows, c d, of solder applied at thejuncton ofevery two adjoining plates, substantially 'asherein shown and described.

G. E. HEGERMAN..

Witnesses: v

FRANK BLOCKLEY,

ALEX. F. ROBERTS.

